Swampy takes the historic tour of Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando this past Friday. Above is Swampy during the tour with tour guide and cemetery keeper, Don Price, with the City of Orlando. Don gives a lively tour with much history[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visits the Lake Panasoffkee Wildlife Management Area. While there Swampy takes a hike …
Above is a banner from around 1955 of Parrot Jungle. There’s a lot of history to Parrot Jungle. Not the least of which is that it is no longer Parrot Jungle. After opening in 1936, the attraction that featured so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy makes his way towards the Georgia border with a stop to Falling Creek Falls. Here’s a very brief look at a park that has much one can discover much in. The park in Columbia County has one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visits Billie’s Swamp Safari near the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation. Click here for more information about this great park! Here’s the welcoming sign… There are Seminole chickees all over the park. Here’s one that has demonstrations of the traditional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visited Homosassa Springs State Park Saturday and here are some photos… Here’s Swampy at the entrance. Here’s the entrance. A mural at the entrance. This is Lu, the hippo, who is over 50 years old, has been at Homosassa[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy jumped into the ‘Hands Across the Sand’ in Cocoa Beach on Saturday, June 26th, for one reason: Tourism is more important than endangering our economy and, moreover, the public safety of Florida’s citizens. There sure were a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the oil disaster grows and grows and ecomasses more of the Gulf, we’ll be seeing seafood prices soar. Here’s a story for the Ocala Star-Banner about it: ———————————————————- Surging Seafood Markets, restaurants may see prices rise Cedric Kent peered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visits Inverness and the Withlacoochee State Trail located in Liberty Park at the end of North Pine Avenue, north of Hwy 41. At the park is the wonderful train caboose… Across from the caboose is the oldest standing train[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Teenage Scubanauts dive deep into marine science
Swampy encountered a rough storm coming across Lake Monroe in Sandford on Friday evening, June 4th 2010. Above is the storm crossing the lake. Below is just a minute or so later as Downtown Sanford got drenched. Despite the storm,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…